How did you break your pop, soda, coke etc...habit?

I've quit three of four times and they way it creeps back up on me is someone buys me a soda and I end up drinking it. It just takes one. And at my parents' house, they have two refrigerators. One is almost solely used for sodas. Talk about temptation.

Right now, I don't buy cans or bottles of soda in bulk. Every once in a while I'll get ONE from a restaurant, gas station, or the checkout line but it's always a single soda.

One day I'll be able to cut that out too, but I'm weak.

I did it!! I used to have 3-4 Diet Cokes every day. While the calorie count is lower with diet, it is still full of chemicals and questionable sweeteners. I was told by a fitness trainer in my church that if I cut that out it would help me tremendously lose the weight. I dealt with the caffeine headaches and cravings. It was hard. I started drinking the packets that you add to water bottles. That was my saving grace. Now I have almost completely cut those out and love drinking ice water with lemon.

You can do it! Write down all the reasons why and keep it on your fridge or inside your wallet (somewhere you will see it often). For me it was all about getting healthy,being free from anything that I was "addicted" to, and enjoying the natural

Cold turkey = I drink flavored seltzer water now

Years ago, I had to switch to caffeine free pop- caffeine was causing all sorts of physical problems for me,

so that was my first step.

Later on I realized I had to stop it all together-

After starting here on MFP, I discovered any pop triggers an insatiable sugar craving- and that I couldn't afford to indulge anymore.

Take it like any other part of this journey- in small steps if you have to.

Cut back, replace w/ WATER, and wean yourself off it

OR quit cold turkey

Whichever you think would work best for you.

Best Wishes!

Just stop having it. You soon stop wanting it

I wanted it every day of the 6 months I stopped drinking it..

jeez, the last time I chose juice or soda over water was when I was in my early teens ( I hated water). I would say the easiest way to do it is just not to buy the soda. There is nothing good about it- the salt makes you thirstier and the sugar hides that fact. Seriously, the more you drink water, the easier it will be. Carry around a nalgene so you don't have an excuse to buy soda.

I said no more.....threw what was left out....and now I am 100% water with occasional coffee and milk.

Did stopping the Diet Coke actually help you lose weight? I've heard that it will and I, literally, just yesterday started my tapering off process. I used to drink 3 cans or more a day and I'm trying to get it down to 1 or less. So far, it's day 2 and I've done good with water and iced tea - especially the berry flavored.

Diet Dr. Pepper!!! about a year ago, i used to consume sugar-loaded Coca-Cola like it was air. once i started MFP, and really appreciating the impact of the empty calories, i switched to DDP, which is the only diet soda i can muster. it really does taste like regular Dr. Pepper. i know it's still soda, sweetners aren't healthy either, etc. etc. - but i really surprised myself by making the switch and sticking with it.

now i drink much less soda, and hopefully i'll switch to water soon! GOOD LUCK!

haha me too, man, i have a hard time giving that up, but i know its a chice,,,,,,, health? or that cold bubbelly drink,,,,
both give me pleasure, as Tony Robbins would say, but he made me realise a thing,,, we are all driven by 2 forces, pain, and pleaseure, and pop, give me instant pleasure, and to quit it for my body and health, is pleasure to, but not instant!!!!! i have to realise how real the long run would give me pleasure, for soooo ong, insted on an immidiate 5 minutes pleasure, followed by guilt inevitably,,,,,,, so, thats what have been helping me recently, and trust me, this is from a person, who need at least 1 can of pop a day,,,,, they say an apple a day, not a can of pop,,,,lol
so think of the long run,,not the immediate pleasure,,,,and it will be easier to go for that drink of water,,is for me, slowly getting easier, and if i have 1 can of pop a week, well though luck, im happy with it, as a treat, not a daily intake,,,, best luck, i know its hard when youre loving it!!! you just need to learn and see whats more pleasurable? 5 minutes of taste with a night of regrets, or water, for a long long well diserve happiness!!! life is full of choices,,, never easy,, easy its for when we will be dead, focus on the pleasures, long and short, and compare the joy at the end,,,, :O)

Lots of Excedrin Migraine. When I quit pop, I had severe migraines. They would get so bad, I'd drink the pop to calm them down. Then someone told me about Excedrin and I must say that I used it at least once a week at the beginning. Now I'm over it, and it's natural for me to reach for a water. When I eat out, I drink diet. It seems to give me a treat every now and then.

I was a mountain dew drinker...4-5 a DAY...easy. Then I switched to diet mountain dew...I drank about the same and of course it helped with weight loss since there were no calories. Now I will have maybe 4-5 diet sodas a week...sunkist, coke or mountain dew. I have not noticed a change in my weightloss, but I do feel better over all. Of course that could be the excercise and/or the weightloss, but can't hurt! I keep water with me all of the time....